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1 Maccabees 2:34 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They said, “We won’t come out. We won’t do the word of the king, to profane the Sabbath day.” "

1 Maccabees 2:34

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32 and many pursued after them, and having overtaken them, they encamped against them and set the battle in array against them on the Sabbath day.

33 They said to them, “Enough of this! Come out and do according to the word of the king, and you will all live!”

34 They said, “We won’t come out. We won’t do the word of the king, to profane the Sabbath day.”

35 Then the enemy hurried to attack them.

36 They didn’t answer them. They didn’t cast a stone at them, or block their secret places,

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1 Maccabees 2:1

"In those days Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem rose up; and he lived at Modin."

1 Maccabees 2:2

"And he had five sons: John, who was surnamed Gaddis;"

1 Maccabees 2:3

"Simon, who was called Thassi;"

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"Judas, who was called Maccabaeus;"

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"Eleazar, who was called Avaran; and Jonathan, who was called Apphus."

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